By Michael Bowman Washington 01 October 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (file photo) America's central bank chief is urging U.S. lawmakers to expand the regulatory oversight for banks to include other large financial and insurance firms w...
By Martin Phillips New York 01 October 2009 The effects of global warming are a concern to many. In the United States, the worry is that large areas of coastline will be lost as water levels rise. Now, a woman from New York thinks she may have a sol...
By Melinda Smith Washington 01 October 2009 Child with cancer A childhood cancer foundation based in the U.S. estimates that 160,000 children around the world are diagnosed each year with cancer. The odds of survival are better in developed countrie...
By Jim Malone Washington 01 October 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court opens its annual term Monday with a new justice and a new slate of potentially significant cases. US Supreme Court (file photo) The Supreme Court traditionally opens its annual term on...
By Carolyn Weaver New York 01 October 2009 A U.S. federal judge has ruled that hundreds of documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency's now-shuttered overseas secret detention program of suspected terrorists, including extreme interrogation...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 01 October 2009 Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell At a Senate subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campb...
By Jennifer Glasse London 01 October 2009 General Stanley McChrystal, NATO's top commander in Afghanistan says the situation there is serious and success is not assured. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the ge...
By Kent Klein Washington 01 October 2009 President Barack Obama (file photo) U.S. President Barack Obama has met with his top military commanders, diplomats, intelligence officials and other advisers, to review Washington's war strategy in Afghanist...
By Kent Klein Washington 01 October 2009 President Obama makes statement about Iran, 1 Oct 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama is demanding that Iran give international inspectors complete access to its newly-disclosed nuclear facility. The president s...
By Selah Hennessy London 01 October 2009 Britain's Serious Fraud Office announced today it will seek to prosecute the world's No. 2 defense contractor on charges of corruption in dealings on foreign contracts. BAE Systems is accused of paying out mi...